US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 29 for "Hinge assembly for mobile computing device" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,681, issued on April 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hinge assembly for mobile computing device" was invented by Kabir Siddiqui (Sammamish, Wash.) and Daniel Clark Park (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hinged mobile computing device includes a first housing part and a second housing part coupled by a hinge assembly having a harness, a harness cover, a first hinge body, and a second hinge body. The harness is configured to accommodate flexible printed circuitry and a cable that extend from the first housing part to the second housing part via the hinge assembly. The hinge bo...